Anxiety can impair the ability of cancer patients to run chemotherapy. Mindfulness training with meditation methods can improve empathy for self in activating affective, cognitive, moral, intra and interpersonal dimension so as to decrease anxiety especially in cancer patient who will undergo chemotherapy. The purpose of this study was to determine the benefits of mindfulness training in reducing anxiety in cancer patients with chemotherapy. The research method used Quasi experiment design with pretest and posttest control group design, in 60 samples taken at Indonesia Cancer Foundation in Yogyakarta, analyzed with Mann Whitney z distribution test for category ordinal and t-test data for experiment and control group differences. The results showed most of the characteristics of age >40 years and female gender with breast cancer type. Conclusions were obtained, mindfulness training can provide benefits for cancer patients in achieving relaxation in order to reduce anxiety when faced with treatment with chemotherapy action, thereby raising awareness to better accept the situation conditions that are happening. Suggestions that health care workers both nurses and doctors can train patients who experience anxiety in the face of chemotherapy or other invasive measures.
Universal precaution is important in remembered a lot of diseases which is dangerous such as HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B virus. One of universal precaution’s branch is using personal protective equipment (PPE) which is being the object of the research. Descriptive research with a survey research study design, located in Wates Hospital, Kulonprogo. The Subjects were 57 nurses employed on Hospitalization Service of Wates Hospital who’s gotten by proportional sampling method. Data analysis was conducted by distributing the frequencies and percents which categorizing the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The result is the use of The Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) on Hospitalization Service in Wates Hospital, Kulonprogo by most of the nurse (58%) are in quite a well category. Many factors influenced it, such as stock of PPE, motivation, leadership, age, and reward. The recommendation is the head of hospitalizations should be more intensively monitoring the member (nurses) in using PPE by checklist sheet.
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